This photo provided by Open Road Films shows, Michael Keaton, from left, as Walter "Robby" Robinson, Liev Schreiber as Marty Baron, Mark Ruffalo as Michael Rezendes, Rachel McAdams, as Sacha Pfeiffer, John Slattery as Ben Bradlee Jr., and Brian d'Arcy James as Matt Carroll, in a scene from the film, "Spotlight." (Kerry Hayes/Open Road Films via AP) (The Associated Press)

The San Diego Union-Tribune Editorial Board

In San Diego, a redesign of the city’s website, which launched Monday, made many things easier, including the ability of journalists to request public records, to access those public records, and to have the records requests themselves be viewed by the public as they are made. This comes at a good time.

It’s Sunshine Week, a national celebration since 2005 of the public’s right to know and the media’s perpetual fight for it. And it’s just two weeks after “Spotlight,” a film about The Boston Globe’s investigation into the Catholic Church’s sexual abuse scandal, won the Oscar for best picture.

Since then, journalists have been thrust into a different spotlight, with one arrested while submitting photographs from his car after Nancy Reagan’s funeral in Simi Valley, another saying a Donald Trump campaign official assaulted her in Jupiter, Fla., and a third detained after “resisting arrest” at a Trump rally in Chicago. What is going on here?

These journalists became part of the story for just doing their jobs. In San Diego, as elsewhere, that job includes submitting records requests. We welcome that those are subject to more sunshine. All institutions should welcome such scrutiny.